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perishingly

perishingly adverb: extremely.

Adverb

perishingly (comparative more perishingly, superlative most perishingly)

  1. (colloquial) extremely
    • The party was short of water and rationed, and such water as they first found was salty, so that they got perishingly thirsty.1926, Charles Francis Saunders, Trees and shrubs of California gardens
    • There were low groans of pain as the field plunged into the perishingly cold water.2009 January 5, Matthew Weaver, “Our man in the ... Annual mud race in Essex”, in The Guardian

Forms of perishingly

comparativemore perishingly
superlativemost perishingly

Origin of perishingly

* from perishing + -ly

Questions about perishingly

What does perishingly mean?
Perishingly means extremely.
What part of speech is perishingly?
Perishingly is an adverb.

Words near perishingly in the dictionary

  1. perishers
  2. perishes
  3. perishest
  4. perisheth
  5. perishing
  6. perishingly
  7. perishings
  8. perishless
  9. perishment
  10. perishments
  11. perisht

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